subject: Ways In Which You Can Apply For Adoptive And Foster Care [print this page] When you decide to apply for foster care, it can sometimes be a long wait and an emotionally charged situation. For a person to decide to do this, are quite excited to have a child and give them something that they needs, love and care. Alternatively their is also an interest to adopting a child, and fostering a child is another option that they can also do. If a child ends up in this process, they are in a desperate need for a home, while a baby has someone waiting on a list to adopt them.
What Is Needed
What you need to do first is call your local Protective and Department of Family services. They will give the dates of the next orientation class to attend. Once you attend this class, they will go through what you need in order to become foster parents. There is a lot more to it than you will probably realize. The family income needs to be at a high rate, so that you can support a family - when you decide to foster you need to known that it is not an income earning scheme. Your home needs to be big enough to support the family, and that you have a certain number of children that is required by the state. In the state of Texas, you must have under six children that are not older than 18 in your residence, or alternatively if there is children under 5 you can have more than 5, and that also includes the children that are yours.
What Are The Next Steps Involved?
Once this class is completed and you can see that you meet their requirements, there is 20 hours of training required. You will be told that when you are fostering, the problems you will face, and they will give you suggestion in how to handle it. They will give you ideas in knowing how to move through the system. They will give you talks, and visual guides on what can happen once you foster and adopt a child. When you pass these class, you will get a certificate, take it to the local office, and from there you will need to take further classes in water safety and CPR. Once this is complete contact your Department of Family agency, and they will come meet with you in your home.
When you need to get your home reading it can be a scary experience and quite a nerve racking one, especially because you want to get it right and you want to impress, but it may not be as bad you may expect. They will provide you with a list of everything that you need, and make sure you have done it all, and you shouldn't have any problems. The house needs to be in order, and you will go through what age you would like to foster, and what problems or disabilities you could accept.
When the study and visit is complete, you have to wait to hear the final verdict, and this can be an emotional time. Once the study is read by the department they will be tell you whether or not you are accepted or denied, and if you are accepted they should give you an indication on when you should be expecting your foster or adoptive child. However, there are some families that could be waiting as it can take a while for this to happen. When this happens it could be because there is a family in front you with better favor, and you could be waiting a while.
